Re: 463 kernel developers missing!

[Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:01:09AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> > It would be Good if we could give more value to Reviewed-by: tag lines also...
> > 
> > IOW, we "need" to do this.  :)
> 
> Also, Tested-by:, to encourage and recognize people who may not be 
> confident in reviewing code to at least test it, which is immensely 
> useful if done thoughtfully.
> 
>   "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring 
>    aircraft building progress by weight."
> 
> If you know who said this, award yourself a cookie :-)
> 
Or just filter on "-by:", which seems to get anything relevant, including
people that shamelessly make up their own tags. In order for something to
be converted from a Cc: to a *-by: requires manual effort at least, which
ought to be sufficient for recognition.

If someone was really bored they could probably make a table of tags with
various points to try and balance things slightly more objectively.
Though it seems we now at least have totally different metrics on LWN,
for the kernel summit selection process, and Jon's new script. ;-)

Trying to map all of the names seems pretty pointless though, most
regular contributors contribute in a fairly consistent and sane manner,
with the odd mismatch or typo here or there. It might make sense for
anyone where there's a significant difference, but those are going to be
corner cases.